Hello Monks

I have an odd problem that I can't seem to resolve involving LWP::UserAgent. I am trying to pass a simple POST to a URL. The URL requires certain fields and has a date type of "array".

To do this, in Curl, say, I wrap the value(s) in square brackets []. However, when I do this in LWP::UserAgent the sqaure bracket gets encoded and the POST fails!

Does anyone know how to pass a content field in LWP::UserAgent and keep the string exactly as is?

e.g - entities value is the problem. Curl first (works).

curl -X POST "https://mysite.com/lookup" \
    -d '{"name":"respond", "falvour": green, "location": europe, "enti
+ties":[369662]}' \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json"

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LWP::UserAgent example (failing)

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->default_header('Content-Type' => 'application/json');
$data = {
            name               => "responding",
            flavour            => "green",
            entities            => '[369662]' ,
            location            => "europe",
        };
my $response = $ua->post( 'https://mysite.com/lookup', $data

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The latter results in the string being passed as "....&entities=%5B369662%5D", which gets rejected.

In reply to LWP content literal string by packetstormer

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